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1) Never shoot your subject head on! Did you know when you photograph a person with both of their shoulders and toes pointing at you, you are creating a very unflattering image? The body position creates a block to the flow of light. The broad shoulders add at least 10 pounds to your subject. If you are photographing a quarterback or linebacker, then go for it, but if not don’t do it! Instead, turn your subject at an angle away from the camera. If the head angle is correct, you should not be able to see the subject’s far ear.
Taking photos with a flash often gives ugly results. Washed-out, flat, phony-looking faces with monstrous makeup can ruin your memories of any special occasion. Everything else is so dark it’s useless. Here’s how to take great, natural-looking portraits and photos in low or very low light. While written for digital cameras, many old film cameras can use these tips, too. The overall strategy is control or compensation for low light, and using some simple built-in controls on your camera. The key to getting them to work the way you want is practice, practice, practice.
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The most important tip that hardly anyone talks about is ‘Train Your Eye’. The eye of a photographer is his or her most important tool. Train your eyes to see light and you are on your way to creating awesome images. Train your eyes to differentiate 2D from 3D and your pictures will suddenly have volume. Teach them what is contrast and they will identify detail. You will create amazing images as long as your eyes make decisions on what to include in your photograph and what to eliminate, the choice of angles and light.
The Power Of Prime Lenses A huge range of focal lengths in a single optic are made available with modern zooms. Companies or people who design lenses work with a single focal length. Hence, chromatic aberration or distortion is minimized. However, designing zoom lenses can mean that compromises are often times necessary. This means that […]
What is a wedding? For a photographer it’s nothing but business. For the bride and groom it’s the most important day of their life. A day in which two lives take a decisive turn, for the better or for the worse. So a wedding is undoubtedly a very important even for at least two people and their immediate families. The photographer must be aware of this, even though for him/her it’s just another day at work. Why is this? Because from him/her and from him/her alone the memories of this decisive day will totally depend upon.
Photographing sunsets and sunrises can produce some of the most beautiful images you will take. Surprisingly, these wonderful scenes are not that difficult to photograph. This article will give you a few tips to make your sunset and sunrise images the best they can be. The best places to take the pictures would be beaches, plains, deserts, or anywhere there is less obstruction of the views. However, you can get great sunset and sunrise pictures anywhere if you are creative and know a little about picture composition.
A night-time photo shoot often presents a problem or two, especially when including an element of interest in the background such as architecture. In most cases a tripod or some other method of stabilizing the camera will be necessary due to the slow shutter speeds used with low-light photography. But even with a tripod, our subject needs to remain somewhat statuesque to prevent blurring. If you’ve ever tried portraits at night, you’ll know that getting clean sharp shots is almost impossible when there’s any kind of movement.
The RAW format is a digital photographer’s friend. If you shoot for commercial purposes (eg. to sell your images to a stock image library) shooting in RAW allows you to squeeze every single drop of quality from your shots. For a JPEG image, the image is first captured by the sensor, then the camera processes the image by applying a contrast curve to it, sharpens it (unless you turned off sharpening), converts it into 8-bits and then stores it in the memory card by compressing it. When this compression is performed, a little bit of image quality is thrown away, in order to achieve a smaller file size.
Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Raluca Mateescu, a talented photographer based in Bucharest, Romania. The photos she uploads to our photo sharing site always receive a great deal of attention so I was pleased she agreed to answer some questions for our readers. How would you describe your photographic style? From flowers to trains, from deserted landscapes to street portraits, from black and white to HDR, I’ve tried it all so far, so cannot honestly say there is a definitive style to my photography.
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